🏆 Three Teams Win ENS Prizes at ETHGlobal Lisbon
🏆 Three Teams Win ENS Prizes at ETHGlobal Lisbon
🏗️ builders showed up
Three projects won ENS prizes at ETHGlobal Lisbon, showcasing diverse applications of the naming protocol:
- Name-as-wallet UX: Simplified wallet creation and recovery using ENS names
- Agentic mini-apps: AI agents with onchain identities built on ENS
- Onchain trust graph: Social trust relationships encoded directly in the namespace
The wins follow a series of ENS presentations in Lisbon, where the team demonstrated how names can serve as infrastructure for apps, wallets, smart accounts, and AI agents. At Pragma Lisbon, ENS founder Makoto Inoue outlined a vision for ENS as a coordination layer across the onchain ecosystem.
The hackathon results mirror strong ENS adoption at ETHPrague, where 29 of 64 projects (45%) integrated the protocol. All three winning teams treated ENS as foundational infrastructure rather than a simple naming service.
Then came the builders. Three teams won ENS prizes at ETHGlobal Lisbon, with projects spanning name-as-wallet UX, agentic mini-apps and an onchain trust graph. Meet the winners:
The winning teams at ETHGlobal Lisbon just dropped. Three projects, all building on ENS. Here's the rundown ⤵️
At Onchain Builders Day in Lisbon, @workem0n previewed ENSv2 features through a hands-on workshop on configuring subname registries, with or without deploying a registrar contract.
At Pragma Lisbon, @makoto_inoue looked back on nine years of ENS and ahead to wallets, smart accounts and AI agents all needing names. His thesis: ENS can become a coordination layer across the onchain ecosystem.
Nine years of Web3 identity and naming, and where it goes next: Makoto Inoue on how ENS could become a coordination layer across the ecosystem, as AI agents join wallets and smart accounts as the newest Web3 users. @makoto_inoue of @ensdomains on stage at Pragma Lisbon.
From New York to Lisbon, the ENS team has been showing builders what becomes possible when names are treated as infrastructure. Across three talks and workshops, we explored ENS for apps, wallets, smart accounts, AI agents and more ↓
Three very different projects, all treating ENS as infrastructure: names that become wallets with built-in recovery, agentic mini-apps with onchain identities, and living trust graphs encoded directly in the namespace. These builders get it.
🔧 How ENS Normalization Works Behind the Scenes
ENS has published a technical explainer on how name normalization works in their system. **The Process** Before ENS can resolve a name, it must first understand what that name is. The flow works like this: - User input → normalization → namehash → ENS contracts - Normalization converts valid variations into a single canonical name - It rejects unsafe input before it reaches the smart contracts **Why It Matters** When normalization functions correctly, users shouldn't notice it at all. They simply type a name, and every up-to-date integration agrees on what that name means. This consistency is crucial for a naming system that maps human-readable names to blockchain addresses and other identifiers. The system ensures that different valid variations of the same name are treated identically, while protecting users from potentially malicious or confusing inputs. [Read the full technical explanation](https://ens.domains/blog/post/how-ens-normalization-works)
🔒 ENS Standardizes Name Security
**ENSIP-15** establishes unified rules for handling ENS names across wallets, apps, libraries, and block explorers. The standard addresses critical security gaps that simple lowercase conversion cannot solve: - Look-alike scripts (homograph attacks) - Combining marks and invisible characters - Complex emoji sequences - Zero-width characters - Names that render differently across devices Finalized in 2023, ENSIP-15 provides a shared normalization framework to protect users from spoofing techniques and ensure consistent name interpretation across the ecosystem.
ENS Names Now Support Direct IBAN Banking Integration
Mt Pelerin has integrated IBAN support with ENS names, enabling users to link traditional bank accounts directly to their Ethereum addresses. **Key features:** - Buy, swap, and cash out crypto using your ENS name - Personal IBAN accounts linked to ENS for crypto-fiat transfers - Multi-currency support including euro and Swiss franc IBANs - Transfers processed in your own name This bridges traditional banking with decentralized identity, allowing ENS names to function as both blockchain addresses and banking identifiers.
Ambire Adds ENS Address Change Detection for Safer Transactions
**Ambire** has introduced a new security feature that alerts users when an ENS (Ethereum Name Service) address has changed since their last interaction. **Key Features:** - Notifies users of address changes associated with ENS names - Helps prevent sending funds to unintended recipients - Adds an extra layer of security for ENS-based transactions This update addresses a potential security risk where ENS name ownership could transfer to a different address, potentially leading to misdirected transactions. The feature provides users with confidence when sending value through the platform. [Learn more about the update](https://x.com/ambire/status/2080656789927002540)